SUB DEBBING IN BEAUTY

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 14

SUB DEBBING IN BEAUTY

It’s just about the age when young lads first ask to borrow father's tuxedo, or suggest that he needs a new one and the old one could be cut down, that young ladies being to want high-heeled shoes and exotic make-up. It's usually the parents' cuo to be decidedly conservative. In my opinion, however, this is really the time for both parents and almost-adult children to compromise. No young lady in her teens wants to go about with a shiny nose, nor does any sensible mother care to see her subdeb daughter looking more sophisticated than a thirty year old screen siren. But there is a middle path, one which will permit the daughter to appear wellgroomed and still in good taste. Directors, make-up artists and designers in Hollywood have kept their hands on the public pulse, and they know exactly how far to go along the lines of feminine appeal with such charming girls as Ann Shirley and Deanna Durbin, when those young ladies must meet the camera face to face. Simplicity and youth are their greatest charms and fliust not suffer from artificial decoration. Yet they have the appearance of having been carefully dressed, powdered and combed. Cleanliness is a matter of paramount importance to the future crop of debutantes. Their is the age most susceptible to acne, and the future of their skins lies iu the care it is given now. Every girl in her teens should wash her face with warm water and soap twice a day. It is her safeguard against skin troubles. Skin and tissue cream will keep her face from chapping and prevent any dry condition that might arise from climate and exposure. The actual make-up from sixteen to twenty should consist of nothing jnoro than powder, to prevent that shine which is so destructive to the pride of the young lady. Colourless lipstick will keep lips soft and prevent cracking, and in the daytime will be found more becoming to the age than the bright col-

The first dance, and thos3 which en

sue, permit milady petite to use just a little rouge and lipstick because artificial lights make one look pale. Her rouge and lipstick must be chosen according to her colour harmony. The wrong shade of either rouge or lipstick will give an impression that “jeune fille” is painted, whereas if they are used lightly and blend perfectly with her own colouring, she will appear natural and naive. The undergraduate coiffure should le one that makes no pretenses, and suggests no guiles. It should be simple tnd

suit the type of its wearer so that it will look perfectly natural.

Bleached and dyed hair are not for the teens. The health and vigour of youth usually produces hair with its own sheen, but if for some reason the very young girl’s hair seems to be dull, she should spray it lightly with brillc-x.

If you have noticed the clothes worn by the ingenues of the screen you will observe that they are—like the coiffure —beguiling in their simplicity. Youth is much too lovely to destroy with mundane characteristics.